[gentoo-user] archiving

[gentoo-user] archiving

[James Lockie]

Compressing a folder doesn't work.

When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a 
"please wait"  dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back and forth.
It is like it is in an infinite loop so end up cancelling.
I've tried zip and tar.bz2
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Re: [gentoo-user] archiving

[Randy Barlow]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:47 -0500, James Lockie wrote:
> Compressing a folder doesn't work.
> 
> When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a 
> "please wait"  dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back and forth.
> It is like it is in an infinite loop so end up cancelling.
> I've tried zip and tar.bz2

Have you tried compressing it from a shell using either tar or gzip, or
zip?

Randy Barlow
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Re: [gentoo-user] archiving

[James Lockie]

Randy Barlow wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:47 -0500, James Lockie wrote:
>   
>> Compressing a folder doesn't work.
>>
>> When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a 
>> "please wait"  dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back and forth.
>> It is like it is in an infinite loop so end up cancelling.
>> I've tried zip and tar.bz2
>>     
>
> Have you tried compressing it from a shell using either tar or gzip, or
> zip?
>   
I tried the same user, same file, same outpu place and it worked fine.
Something is wrong with KDE. :-(
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Re: [gentoo-user] archiving

[Uwe Thiem]

On 05 January 2007 08:56, James Lockie wrote:
> Randy Barlow wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:47 -0500, James Lockie wrote:
> >> Compressing a folder doesn't work.
> >>
> >> When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a
> >> "please wait"  dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back and
> >> forth. It is like it is in an infinite loop so end up cancelling.
> >> I've tried zip and tar.bz2
> >
> > Have you tried compressing it from a shell using either tar or gzip, or
> > zip?
>
> I tried the same user, same file, same outpu place and it worked fine.
> Something is wrong with KDE. :-(

Well, mine (3.5.5) doesn't do that.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] archiving

[Richard Fish]

On 1/4/07, James Lockie <bjlockie@lockie.ca> wrote:
> Compressing a folder doesn't work.
>
> When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a
> "please wait"  dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back and forth.
> It is like it is in an infinite loop so end up cancelling.
> I've tried zip and tar.bz2

Any error messages showing up in ~/.xsession-errors?  How much data is
in the folders?  Bzip2 at least will take a long time to compress...it
processes at 1-3MB/s on most systems.

-Richard
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